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JUDI KESSELMAN-TURKEL and FRANKLYNN PETERSON have written, edited and taught together
since 1975 as:
P/K Associates, Inc.
3006 Gregory Street
Madison, WI 53711
phone (608) 231-1003
email studysmart@booksthatteach.com
Authors and coauthors of 22 nonfiction books, 11 on writing-related topics
Communications educators
Co-authors, "The Business Computer" syndicated newspaper column (1983-1994)
Editors, "CPA Computer Report," a newsletter for accountants (1983-present)
PROFESSIONAL HONORS:
Judi
 | 1977 Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award (American Business Press Association) |
| 1984 Citation for Excellence in Consumer Journalism, National Press Club |
| 1985 First Prize for Excellence in Consumer Journalism, National Press Club |
Frank
| 1990 Citation by Governor Norman H. Bangerter of Utah for contributing to having made Utah very significant in the computer industry |
| 1985 First Prize for Excellence in Consumer Journalism, National Press Club (for syndicated newspaper column, The Business Computer) |
| 1984 Citation for Excellence in Consumer Journalism, National Press Club (for syndicated newspaper column, The Business Computer) |
| 1977 Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award (American Business Press Association) |
| 1973 Brotherhood in Media Award, National Conference of Christians & Jews |
| 1971 American Optometric Assn. Journalism Award |
NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
| 1974 - The American Society of Journalists and Authors |
| 1978 - Authors Guild |
OTHER EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
as Corporate Project Editors
| Project Editor for Investment Targeting: A Wisconsin Case Study, book-length report of the Pension Fund Study project of the Wisconsin Center for Public Policy (Madison) |
on Magazines
| Prime Times Magazine (Credit Union National Association): Contributing Editor |
| Sepia Magazine (a national monthly for black readers): Editor in Chief |
| Physician's Management Magazine (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich): Contributing Editor |
| Pageant Magazine (McFadden-Bartell Publications): Contributing Editor |
| Modern Screen Magazine (Dell Publications): Managing Editor |
| True Story Magazine (McFadden-Bartell Publications): Senior Editor |
| My Love Secret and Real Stories magazines (KMR Publications): Editor-in-Chief |
| Hollywood Screen Parade, Screen Spotlight, and Romance Time (Allan Stearn Publications): Editorial Director |
| Sterling Publishing Company, NY: Editor/Producer, film and television fan magazines |
| Dell Publications, New York: Screen Stories Magazine, Modern Romances Magazine |
| Author-Editor and production coordinator, numerous "one-shot" film and television magazines |
Editors with Newspapers, Newsletters, etc., for
| CPA Micro Report, CPA Computer Report |
| Sepia Magazine |
| United Parent-Teacher Council, Great Neck, NY |
| North Shore Junior Science Museum, Port Washington, NY |
| New York City Parent Teachers' Association |
| Reuben H. Donnelly Corp., NY |
LECTURESHIPS AND TEACHING POSITIONS (representative sample):
| Adult Educator, Great Neck (NY) Public Schools (with State University of New York at Stony Brook and Farmingdale) |
| Lecturer, Nonfiction, C.W. Post Center of Long Island University |
| Lecturer, Nonfiction, New York University |
| Instructors, Communications Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Programs (courses in research, interview techniques, writing skills, nonfiction marketing, business writing) |
| Instructors, UW-Extension Telephone Network |
| Lecturer, Institute of Internal Auditors and Association of Government Accountants, Southern WI. |
| Lecturers, Center for Research and Development in University Programs for Nontraditional Students, University of Wisconsin |
| Chairs, Annual Midwest Nonfiction Writers' Conference, American Society of Journalists and Authors and University of Wisconsin Extension |
| Lecturer, Annual Media Bylines for Women Conference, University of Wisconsin |
| Instructor, Junior Academy, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters |
| Lecturer, Professional Seminar, American Women in Radio and Television, Wisconsin chapter |
| Lecturer, Midwest Conference, International Association of Business Communicators |
| Lecturer, Northern Waters Writers' Conference, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
| Instructor, Marketing Techniques, Rhinelander (WI) School of the Arts |
Our BIOGRAPHIES AND PROFILES appear in (representative sample):
| Who's Who in America 2006 |
| Who's Who in the World 2007 |
| Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson manuscript collection, Archive of Contemporary History, University of Wyoming |
| Contemporary Authors |
| Working Press of the Nation |
| The International Authors and Writers Who's Who (Brit.) |
| Dictionary of International Biography (Brit.) |
| Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets |
| Long Island (NY) Press, 10/10/72, 12/21/72 |
| Newsday (NY), 5/26/76, reprinted nationally |
| New York Times, 1/16/77 |
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS FOR ADULTS
By Judi Kesselman-Turkel
| 1975 STOPPING OUT: A GUIDE TO LEAVING COLLEGE AND |
| GETTING BACK IN (M. Evans) |
By Franklynn Peterson
| 2001 Freedom From Fibromyalgia (Three Rivers Press/Random House) - coauthor Nancy Selfridge, MD |
| 1977, 1986 How to Fix Damn Near Everything (Prentice-Hall) - 1,000,000+ COPIES IN PRINT |
| 1973, 1978 Handbook of Lawn Mower Repair (Emerson Books, Hawthorn Books) |
| 1976 The Build It Yourself Furniture Catalog (Prentice-Hall} |
| Children’s Toys You Can Build Yourself (Prentice-Hall) |
COAUTHORED: Peterson and Kesselman-Turkel
| GOOD WRITING (Franklin Watts, University of Wisconsin Press 2007): a basic college rhetoric textbook |
| THE MAGAZINE WRITER'S HANDBOOK (Prentice Hall, University of Wisconsin Press 2006) |
| THE AUTHOR'S HANDBOOK (Prentice Hall, University of Wisconsin Press 2006) |
| THE GRAMMAR CRAMMER (Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| RESEARCH SHORTCUTS (Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| NOTE-TAKING MADE EASY Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| THE VOCABULARY BUILDER (Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| TEST TAKING STRATEGIES (Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| STUDY SMARTS (Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| SECRETS TO WRITING GREAT PAPERS (Contemporary Books, University of Wisconsin Press 2004) |
| HOMEOWNER'S BOOK OF LISTS (Contemporary Books) |
| HOW TO IMPROVE DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING AROUND YOUR HOME (Prentice Hall) |
| HANDBOOK OF SNOWMOBILE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR (Hawthorn/Dutton) |
| EAT ANYTHING EXERCISE DIET (Wm. Morrow) third author Dr. Frank Konishi, chairman, Nutrition Department, Southern Illinois University; foreword by Dr. Jean Meyer |
| THE DO-IT-YOURSELF CUSTOM VAN BOOK (Contemporary Books) |
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
| VANS (Dandelion Press) |
| I CAN USE TOOLS (Elsevier-Nelson/Dutton) |
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES (representative sample)
| 1983-94 Co-authored and self-syndicated continuing award-winning series of computer columns with working titles The Business Computer and Frank and Judi on Computers, published by approximately 150 US and overseas newspapers |
| Parade (national Sunday supplement): "Should You Raffle Your House?" |
| The National Star: "Eat Anything and Exercise Diet" |
| Los Angeles Times Syndicate: 5-part feature series on diet and exercise |
| Metropolitan Sunday Newspaper Group (nation alliance): "How to Pick a Pill" |
| New York Times: "Suburbia? It Has Its Drawbacks" |
| "It Costs Too Much to Go to a Museum" |
| Newsday's LI Magazine (NY): "Without Ken: the Story of a Policeman's Widow" |
| Family Weekly (national newsmagazine insert): |
| "10 Questions You're Always Asked About Cancer" |
| "Get a College Degree in Your Living Room" |
| Great Neck, NY, Record: concert review series |
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
| 1980 "Why Johnny Can't Write" (Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters) |
MAGAZINE ARTICLES (representative sample):
| 1975-81 Created an unique in-depth phone survey device copyrighted under the name "PhoneScan" and used to create article series for Hospitals and Physician's Management magazines. The series in Physician's Management ran steadily for 42 monthly issues and won the coveted Jesse H. Neal Award for editorial achievement of the American Business Press Association |
| 1976-82 "12 Ways to Get More Out of Studying," Seventeen Magazine, reprinted by Women's Weekly of Australia, Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, The Reading Commitment (a college reader) by Adelstein and Pavel (HBJ, 1978) Expression and Communication (a high school reader) by McMaster (Acad. Press Can., 1980), others |
| "Risk Management," Computers in Banking Magazine |
| "The Big Daddy of Sweat Equity," Fortune Magazine |
| "Taking the Tough Route of Fairness," American Education Magazine |
| "Catching Customers With Sweepstakes," Fortune |
| "Agent X," OMNI Magazine |
| "House-Selling with Raffles," Parade Magazine |
| "Fixing Up" (8-article series), Women's World Magazine |
| "No-Nonsense Ways to Save Energy," Prime Times |
| "How the Laws Affect Your Retirement," Prime Times |
| "Medical Office Managers," Women's World |
| "Taking the Fun Out of Pot," OMNI |
| "The Marketing of Carl Sagan," OMNI |
| "The History of Paper," Viewpoints |
| "The Eat Anything Exercise Diet," Success Unlimited |
| series of travel and restaurant review articles, Wisconsin Regional Magazine |
| "Paint Your Home to Last 10 Years," Popular Science |
| "How Tornado Labs Tame Giant Twisters," Popular Mechanics |
| "Villa Vacations," Physician's Management |
| "Your Health" article series for Success Unlimited Magazine (6 bimonthly articles) |
| "Great Get-Away-From-It-All Vacations," Prime Times Magazine |
| "12 Ways to Help You Wins A's," Seventeen |
| "The Contraceptive Controversy," Be Alive Magazine |
| "Your Immunity to Cancer," Science Digest (reprinted in college textbook Readings in Human Biology, Avery, 1979) |
| "Tornado," Popular Science |
| "Wargaming," Science Digest |
| "Women's Transit Authority," McCall's Magazine |
| "Dome Homes," Money Magazine, Popular Science |
| "How to Read a College Catalog," Seventeen |
| "Miracle Machine: SuperCAT With X-Ray Eyes," Family Health (reprinted in Science Digest |
| "Affair with a Married Man," Playgirl (reprinted in New Woman |
| "Detecting Learning Problems Before Children Start School," McCall's |
| "Winter of '76," Modern Medicine |
| "Build Your Own Luxurious Plastic Furniture," Family Handyman |
| "Finding Humans to Provide Human Interest," Writer's Digest Magazine |
| "After You're Raped You Need a Lawyer," VIVA (2-part series) |
| "Camp Counselors: 15 Questions to Ask in an Interview," New Ingenue |
| "The Divorce Game," Playgirl Magazine (reprinted by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting for inclusion in National Public Television series Consumer Survival Kit |
| "The Care and Feeding of Stopouts," Change, the Magazine of Higher Education |
| "Divorce Insurance," Barrister, magazine of the American Bar Association (ghosted) |
| "12 Ways to Get More out of Studying," Seventeen |
| "The Skateboard Menace," Family Health Magazine |
| "25 Doctors Talk About House Calls," Family Health |
| "Are House Calls Ever Necessary?" Practical Psychology for Physicians |
| "10 Questions Patients Are Afraid to Ask About Cancer," Practical Psychology for Physicians |
| "Stopping Out: A Planned Leave of Absence," Nutshell: A Handbook for College |
| "How to Get a College Degree at Home," Playgirl |
| "Library Education," Modern Maturity Magazine |
| "Female Alcoholics," New Dawn Magazine |
| "Colds: Catching Them, Curing Them," Weight Watchers |
| "Stopping Out: The New Alternative to Dropping Out," New Ingenue Magazine |
| "You and Your Career: the Medical Profession," New Ingenue |
| "Do You Think Fat or Thin?" Weight Watchers Magazine |
| "A Guide to Franchising," Pageant |
| "How to Learn to Assert Yourself," Chatelaine (Can.) |
| "This Is an Emergency," Pageant |